Corrosive Effect Quotes

Some people say torture doesn’t work. I do not know whether it does or not. … The reality is the effect it has on you. When you become the torturer, something happens to that force … it has a corrosive effect over time. You move down a path that is difficult to come back from.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Betting by insiders has a corrosive effect. It breeds suspicion, adds to the appearance of corruption, invites more corruption, and, in a sport like boxing, puts lives at risk.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.